"A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic.……" — David Mamet

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• Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting… — David Bailey
• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if… — Leon Edel
• Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it.… — William Faulkner
• Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you… — Emilia Clarke
• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened,… — Rachael Harris
• Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things… — Dagmara Dominczyk
• I wasnt a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an… — Marina Sirtis
• Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man;… — Vasily Grossman
• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity,… — Unknown Author
• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom,… — Chad Harbach
• "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life,… — Anton Chekhov
• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. — Uta Hagen

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